My Best Side...

My Best Side...

6" x 6", pastel

We are blessed with the cutest family of wrens. To be so tiny, they are one loud little critter. They flit all over the porch singing their songs at the top of their lungs. They enjoy sitting high on the furniture, but that doesn't make for very interesting paintings!! So.....a little artistic license was put in play here....

 

Lesser Goldfinch

 Lesser Goldfinch

6" x 6", pastel

We have many various visitors to our birdfeeder, supplying endless hours of enjoyment. These little beauties visit during the warm weather, so we enjoy them while we can.

Peach Sunset

Peach Sunset

12 x 6, pastel

There is something about painting a vertical sunset. I just love them, maybe because they are unexpected, just as the colors of this sunset. It was so pale but with the wisps of clouds that really looked like they wanted to bring rain.......but, alas, it didn't happen.

 

Dragonfly

Dragonfly

Matted to 8x10, watercolor

Watercolor was my medium of choice for 20+ years. Then I discovered pastel..... I still create in watercolor just not to the extent that pastel is used. But some subjects just lend themselves to watercolor and that is just what this dragonfly needed!!

 

Hill Country Scene

Hill Country Scene

8" x 8", pastel

The Texas Hill Country is known for the wildflowers that 'usually' cover the fields and sides of the roads each spring, this year, not so much. They are dependent upon the rainfall received in the fall and winter and not so much of that happened. So even though they were few and far between, I decided that I would paint them from memory. Bluebonnets and Indian Paintbrushes are my favorite. Have to admit that name of the lavendar/ purple flowers escapes me, just know that they are not verbena.